"I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it."

-- Joan Allen

#Thinking Quotes #Acting Quotes #Adults Quotes

“I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, youâ€™re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change peopleâ€™s ideas, you shouldnâ€™t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where theyâ€™ll have to act on ideas not argue about them.”
“I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go.”
“If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.”
“It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.”
“All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned.”
“It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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